1900-1949 | 1950-1999 | All Timelines
1901 – Queen Victoria dies
1904 – Britain signs the Entente Cordiale (friendly understanding) with France
1906 – The first dreadnought, a new and powerful battleship is launched
1908 – Kenneth Grahame published The Wind In The Willows
1909 – The first old age pensions are paid
1911 – The National Insurance Act is passed
1914 – In August the First World War begins
1916 – The Battle of the Somme is fought. Tanks are used in battle for the first time.
1916 – Conscription is introduced
1918 – The First World War ends in November
1918 – Women over 30 are allowed to vote if they meet a property qualification
1918 – The school leaving age is raised to 14
1922 – The BBC is founded
1926 – Workers hold a General Strike but they are defeated
1926 – A. A. Milne publishes Winnie The Pooh
1928 – Universal suffrage is introduced. (Everyone over the age of 21 is allowed to vote).
1930 – Frank Whittle invents the jet engine
1932 – Unemployment reaches 22.8%
1933 – Unemployment starts to fall. Britain starts to recover from the depression
1936 – Television begins in Britain
1939 – Second World War begins
1939 – About 10% of households in Britain now own a car
1940 – The British army is evacuated from Dunkirk
1940 – Battle of Britain
1942 – The Beveridge Report is published. It proposes a new welfare state
1944 – Allied invasion of France
1944 – The Butler Education Act is passed
1945 – Second World War ends
1945 – George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm is published
1947 – The school leaving age is raised to 15
1948 – The National Health Service is founded
1949 – George Orwell’s novel 1984 is published
1910 Between the 5th and 10th June the weather was very thundery across England & Wales
1914 to 1918 Records suggest wet period
1916/1917 One of the most severe winters of the 20th century prior to 1939/40 – A major problem in the Great War
1920 A notably cold summer
1920 Heavy Snowfall 11th and 12th December – the snow was reported as ‘very dry’. It fell without any wind, and as a result, no drifting occurred – heavy snowfall was reported daily until the 16th – in Plymouth it lay on the ground for 10 days – this was considered (at the time) to be the worst snow in the district since the blizzard of March 1891.
1927 (25th-26th December): worst Christmas period blizzard in a century During the late evening of the 25th, what is regarded as one of the worst snowstorms in the 20th century occurred. Most of the country experienced snow, but the south bore the brunt
1933 (February): between the 23rd and 26th gales and heavy snowstorms swept across much of Britain; this was probably the first occasion the Meteorological Office issued a forecast for road traffic dislocation due to snow to the general public. Described as a ‘Great blizzard’ in ………. and southwest England
1939/1940 (Winter): first winter of World War II – the winter was not so intense as that of 1894-95 but was longer and snowier –
1940-1942 (Winters): The three winters of the early war years were notable for some harsh conditions. In the ’39/’40 winter, not only was snow a significant problem, but it contained the longest-lasting rain-ice event (27th January to 3rd February 1940) known for these islands. On January 19th 1942 a great snowstorm affected much of Britain with much dislocation of life
1945 (January): snow a feature of this month – 22nd up to the 25th, South Wales & SW England experienced significant snowfall
1947 winter was not the coldest of the 20th century, but certainly one of the snowiest – snow falling somewhere in the UK every day from 22 January to 17 March. A very mild start to the year gave no hint of the chaos to come, but by the end of January, south-west England was battered with blizzards, much of Devon isolated, and people were relying on troops to clear the roads and railways, and the RAF to drop in supplies
1837 to 1901 Victoria
1901 to 1910 Edward VII
1910 to 1936 George V
1936 Edward VIII (Abdicated)
1936 to 1952 George VI
1895 to 1902 Robert Cecil (3rd time) – Conservative
1902 to 1905 Arthur James Balfour – Conservative
1905 to 1908 Henry Campbell-Bannerman – Liberal
1908 to 1916 H.H. Asquith – Liberal
1916 to 1922 David Lloyd George – Liberal
1922 to 1923 Bonar Law – Conservative
1923 to 1924 Stanley Baldwin (1st time) – Conservative
1924 Ramsay Macdonald (1st time) – Labour
1924 to 1929 Stanley Baldwin (2nd time) – Conservative
1929 to 1935 Ramsay Macdonald (2nd time) – Labour
1935 to 1937 Stanley Baldwin (3rd time) – Conservative
1937 to 1940 Neville Chamberlain – Conservative
1940 to 1945 Winston Churchill (1st time) – Conservative
1945 to 1951 Clement Attlee – Labour
On August 18th, 1919, the two benefices of East and West Worlington were united.
St Mary – East Worlington
1886 Thomas Holford Buckworth
1902 Horace Ayton Hill B.A.
1919 Henry John Hodgson M.A.
1937 Twyneham Heron Encombe Woods
1942 William Humberstone Maddock Lth. (Priest in Charge)
1960 Ernest Hampden Nind
St Mary – West Worlington
1891 Horace Ayton Hill B.A.
1919 Henry John Hodgson M.A.
1937 Twyneham Heron Encombe Woods
1942 William Humberstone Maddock Lth.
1960 Ernest Hampden Nind
1920 Barn sold from church ownership to community as a Parish Hall
